Re: mm: OS boot failed when set command-line kmemcheck=1

From: Xishi Qiu
Date: Wed Feb 19 2014 - 04:39:36 EST


On 2014/2/19 15:49, David Rientjes wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Xishi Qiu wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> CONFIG_KMEMCHECK=y and set command-line "kmemcheck=1", I find OS
>> boot failed. The kernel is v3.14.0-rc3
>>
>> If set "kmemcheck=1 nowatchdog", OS will boot successfully.
>>
>
> I have automated kernel boots that have both "kmemcheck=0" and
> "kmemcheck=1" as the last parameter in the kernel command line every
> night and I've never seen it fail on tip or linux-next before.
>
> So I'm sure I won't be able to reproduce your issue, but it may have
> something to do with your bootloader that isn't described above. The
> sscanf() really wants to be replaced with kstrtoint().
>
> Could you try this out?
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c
> @@ -78,10 +78,16 @@ early_initcall(kmemcheck_init);
> */
> static int __init param_kmemcheck(char *str)
> {
> + int val;
> + int ret;
> +
> if (!str)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - sscanf(str, "%d", &kmemcheck_enabled);
> + ret = kstrtoint(str, 0, &val);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + kmemcheck_enabled = val;
> return 0;
> }
>

Hi David,

Thank you for your suggestion, but it still failed.
Here is a warning, I don't whether it is relative to my hardware.
If set "kmemcheck=1 nowatchdog", it can boot.

code:
...
pte = kmemcheck_pte_lookup(address);
if (!pte)
return false;

WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi());

if (error_code & 2)
...

log:
[ 10.920683] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/kmemcheck.c:640 k
memcheck_fault+0xb1/0xc0()
[ 10.920684] Modules linked in:
[ 10.920686] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.14.0-rc3-0.1-default+
#3
[ 10.920687] Hardware name: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Tecal RH2285 V2-24S/
BC11SRSC1, BIOS RMISV055 02/02/2013
[ 10.920690] 0000000000000280 ffff88085f807678 ffffffff814ca491 ffff88085f807
6b8
[ 10.920693] ffffffff8104ce97 0000000000000000 ffff88085f807838 ffff88085f420
5d4
[ 10.920695] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88085f4205d4 ffff88085f807
6c8
[ 10.920695] Call Trace:
[ 10.920701] <NMI> [<ffffffff814ca491>] dump_stack+0x6a/0x79
[ 10.920705] [<ffffffff8104ce97>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xb0
[ 10.920707] [<ffffffff8104ced5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 10.920710] [<ffffffff810452c1>] kmemcheck_fault+0xb1/0xc0
[ 10.920714] [<ffffffff814d262b>] __do_page_fault+0x39b/0x4c0
[ 10.920718] [<ffffffff81272cd2>] ? put_dec+0x72/0x90
[ 10.920720] [<ffffffff812730ba>] ? number+0x33a/0x360
[ 10.920723] [<ffffffff814d2829>] do_page_fault+0x9/0x10
[ 10.920726] [<ffffffff814cf222>] page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 10.920731] [<ffffffff81348b4c>] ? vt_console_print+0x8c/0x400
[ 10.920733] [<ffffffff81348b2c>] ? vt_console_print+0x6c/0x400
[ 10.920737] [<ffffffff8109cd9b>] ? msg_print_text+0x18b/0x1f0
[ 10.920739] [<ffffffff8109bed1>] call_console_drivers+0xc1/0xe0
[ 10.920741] [<ffffffff8109d746>] console_unlock+0x236/0x280
[ 10.920744] [<ffffffff8109e095>] vprintk_emit+0x2b5/0x450
[ 10.920746] [<ffffffff810452c1>] ? kmemcheck_fault+0xb1/0xc0
[ 10.920748] [<ffffffff814ca3f7>] printk+0x4a/0x4c
[ 10.920750] [<ffffffff810452c1>] ? kmemcheck_fault+0xb1/0xc0
[ 10.920753] [<ffffffff8104ce4e>] warn_slowpath_common+0x3e/0xb0
[ 10.920755] [<ffffffff8104ced5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[ 10.920757] [<ffffffff810452c1>] kmemcheck_fault+0xb1/0xc0
[ 10.920760] [<ffffffff814d262b>] __do_page_fault+0x39b/0x4c0
[ 10.920763] [<ffffffff814d2829>] do_page_fault+0x9/0x10
[ 10.920765] [<ffffffff814cf222>] page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 10.920769] [<ffffffff81015b52>] ? x86_perf_event_update+0x2/0x70
[ 10.920772] [<ffffffff8101de21>] ? intel_pmu_save_and_restart+0x11/0x50
[ 10.920774] [<ffffffff8101eb02>] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x142/0x3a0
[ 10.920777] [<ffffffff814d0655>] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x35/0x60
[ 10.920779] [<ffffffff814cfe83>] nmi_handle+0x63/0x150
[ 10.920782] [<ffffffff814cffd3>] default_do_nmi+0x63/0x290
[ 10.920784] [<ffffffff814d02a8>] do_nmi+0xa8/0xe0
[ 10.920786] [<ffffffff814cf527>] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e
[ 10.920789] [<ffffffff814cf0f0>] ? retint_signal+0x78/0x78
[ 10.920791] [<ffffffff814cf0f0>] ? retint_signal+0x78/0x78
[ 10.920793] [<ffffffff814cf0f0>] ? retint_signal+0x78/0x78
[ 10.920799] <<EOE>> <#DB> [<ffffffff81306b53>] ? acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x
98/0x251


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